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| complete name: |
Venki Ramakrishnan |
| nobel prize: |
chemistry |
| award year: |
2009 |
| together with: |
Ada Yonath |
| together with: |
Thomas A. Steitz |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Venkatraman |
| family name: |
Ramakrishnan |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
biochemistry |
| field of work: |
computational biology |
| work location: |
University of Utah, 201 Presidents Circle, ROOM 201, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-9008, United States of America |
| description: |
Venki Ramakrishnan is an Indian-American-British structural biologist of Indian origin. He is the current President of the Royal Society, having held the position since November 2015. In 2009 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK, where he is also the Deputy Director. |
| image copyright: |
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1952 |
| usual name: |
Venki Ramakrishnan |
